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The panicked New.Lang immediately formed a united front with NetEase and Sohu and decided to challenge the hegemony of Haobo Technology. However, they had no advantages that could threaten Haobo Technology. The only thing they could do was to criticize Haobo Technology's "unethical" competition methods on their respective portals.

All of a sudden, these three portals were like frightened birds, and launched a verbal attack on Haobo Technology on their respective platforms.

Zhou Hao didn't care about this kind of verbal attack. He asked the public relations department to write a statement and push it out. The content of the statement was very simple, with only two points: first, some websites took their anger out on Haobo Technology because of the position adjustment of pp123, and then launched attacks and slander against Haobo Technology. Their behavior was despicable and dirty, and they were really mean; second, pp123 is a wholly-owned subsidiary website of Haobo Technology. Haobo Technology has the right to make any changes or adjustments to pp123, and no company has the right to interfere. It is purely unreasonable and unreasonable to use this as an excuse to attack.

After these two viewpoints were released, a huge number of internet trolls on Yu Yanhui's Zhihu followed suit. They not only criticized the three major portals for their ill intentions on pp and third-party platforms, but also spread such remarks to the three major portals' own positions.

In this matter, it was reasonable and logical that Haobo Technology occupied the commanding heights of public opinion, and its ability to deliver ads and mobilize internet trolls was much stronger than those of these portals, so these portals were quickly defeated. What Zhou Hao did not expect was that several other well-known websites chose to support Haobo Technology without exception, and also criticized these major portals, completely isolating these major portals in online public opinion for a time.

Later, Zhou Hao thought about it and soon understood the practices of other websites. For them, such a big thing must be spoken out. The question is how to speak out and from which side to speak out. If they stand on the side of the major portals, they will stand on the opposite side of Haobo Technology. Recalling Sina’s experience, who would want to offend Haobo Technology? Everyone is a website, and the larger websites are included in pp123, and all have pp123’s diversion, and everyone also needs to rely on pp to spread the website. Even if Haobo Technology blocks it casually, the loss to them is huge, so they must speak out from the perspective of Haobo Technology.

To evaluate this matter objectively, Haobo Technology and the other portals should each have their own rights and faults. Although Haobo Technology's approach is legal, it is not necessarily reasonable. Although the other portals are facing a crisis, their criticism of Haobo is excessive, selfish and obviously unfair. If there are no interests involved, the media should have different attitudes and not unified. However, most online media have not paid attention to objective views from the beginning, they only care about interests.

Just like some automotive vertical media, every official car review and comparison that seems fair and just almost involves interests that readers cannot see. In the end, even if they are not paid to say good things about themselves, some people pay them to discredit their opponents. In the end, everything is not to let readers distinguish between the good and the bad, but to subtly influence the audience's purchasing tendencies.

Precisely for this reason, Haobo Technology received support from the entire network, while several portals that stirred up trouble not only failed to win public support, but were isolated by the entire network and spurned by netizens.

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Recently Zhou Hao has no time to see Lou Xinyu. Logically, when they just had a relationship and were officially inseparable, he should have just invited her to dinner and given her a skirt bought from Hong Kong. Lou Xinyu originally wanted to pester Zhou Hao and take him to see her new house, but she couldn't bear it when she saw Zhou Hao looking tired.

Sometimes Zhou Hao also wants to slow down the pace and not put so much pressure on himself. He is fighting on multiple fronts at the same time. Even if he has reliable partners on each front, he still feels overwhelmed. But if he thinks from another perspective, now is a good time to grab land. If he takes a day off now, he will need a month or even a year to catch up later. So he dare not relax.

Whether in the last life or this life, the domestic Internet has developed rapidly since this year. If I hadn't appeared, Baidu would have launched MP3 search by the end of this year, and its market share would have risen rapidly. Tencent has more than 2 million users this year and launched QQ games, which are invincible. Alibaba's B2B business is getting stronger and bigger, and its BC business is also ready. This year is a grand fiscal year, and it is also the beginning of Sina's fiscal year. NetEase has also begun to rise in the game field with Westward Journey Online...

If Zhou Hao breathed a sigh of relief at this time, what he would lose would not just be a little bit, but a whole market.

Not only that, since 2002, housing prices in Beijing have entered an era of soaring prices. Whether it is residential real estate or commercial real estate, it is a good time to enter the industry. Marriott Real Estate has gathered enough capital and is ready to acquire land along the East Third Ring Road.

Not to mention the entertainment industry. With the continuous growth of national GDP, people's demand for entertainment culture is also increasing. "Infernal Affairs", the pinnacle of Hong Kong films in the next ten years, is not far from being released. Before the entertainment industry blows out, stars, works, IPs, channels, and theaters must be accumulated. Starting at this time is just the right time to prepare for the arrival of the flourishing entertainment industry, and even promote the arrival of this era ahead of time.

So after a careful screening, Zhou Hao found that he simply couldn't give up any of the current points. He could only work hard himself and then find more capable people to take over.

Speaking of great people, this afternoon Zhou Hao received a call from Xi Renran from Hong Kong Weekly. She told Zhou Hao on the phone that she had completed the resignation procedures and bought a plane ticket for tomorrow, and would arrive in Beijing tomorrow night.

Zhou Hao was delighted. He was very satisfied with Xi Renran. She was confident, visionary, capable and competent. She should be able to take charge of the content of the entertainment section of the portal website.

He asked someone to book a room in a hotel near the company in advance, and sent someone to pick her up at the airport the next day. He then took Lu Yatong, the deputy editor-in-chief of pp portal, and Xi Renran to dinner.

After Xi Renran joined the company, as the person in charge of the entertainment section, she had a great deal of autonomy in her work. The editor-in-chief only set strategic goals and frameworks for her and did not interfere with her team formation and specific work.

In addition, Zhou Hao also gave Xi Renran an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, which was 30% higher than her salary in Hong Kong. She was a typical white-collar worker. However, for the entertainment industry, this salary was not high, but it made Xi Renran very satisfied. She was from the mainland and had been in Hong Kong for a long time, so she understood Hong Kong better. Unlike other people who were not familiar with Hong Kong, she did not yearn for Hong Kong. On the contrary, the country's vigorous development had always attracted her attention. She was very satisfied to be able to join Haobo Technology.

Although Zhou Hao admired Xi Renran very much, she was only a third-line management position in the entire company. So after she joined Haobo Technology, Zhou Hao did not communicate with her often, but handed her over to Lu Yatong. All the preparations before the portal went online were also handed over to the deputy editor-in-chief Cao Yi, who was responsible for preparing it and striving to launch it as soon as possible.

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These days, Zhou Hao didn't even have time to meet Lou Xinyu. He just took some time to have a meal with her, gave her the skirt he bought for her in Hong Kong, and then buried himself in other things.

Zhou Hao has been taking time out every night to write the script for "You Are the Apple of My Eye" recently. He plans to finish it in the next two days and wait for Ning Hao to help him make an appointment with Teng Huatao to show him the script.

The script was completed, and Zhou Hao asked Ning Hao to help him make an appointment with Teng Huatao. Ning Hao happened to have returned from an inspection in Sichuan and Chongqing, so he immediately made an appointment with Teng Huatao. Teng Huatao was not busy recently, so he immediately agreed after receiving Ning Hao's call.

Teng Huatao is not a well-known director yet. His main development direction is TV series, and few people ask him to make movies. When he heard that Haobo Yingxiang was going to invest in a campus youth romance drama, Teng Huatao was very excited. Although he had not seen the script yet, he believed in the strength of Haobo Yingxiang. With the support of Haobo Technology, they must not be short of money. Therefore, if they want to invest in a movie, the budget must be quite large. Sufficient budget is an important prerequisite for making a movie. Many of the director's ideas and ambitions need budget support.

Zhou Hao had not considered the budget for "You Are the Apple of My Eye", but most of the scenes of this movie are concentrated on campus, and the overall production cost is not high. As for the actors, the No. 1 male role will definitely be Pei Feihong, and the No. 1 female role will definitely be Chen Qi. There are many people to consider for the No. 2 male role. After all, there are many "fresh meat" in the Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy who are good choices, and Teng Huatao can decide for himself. However, Zhou Hao has already decided on the No. 2 female role, and that is Zhao Yueying's cousin Dou Yun.

If the film preparations go smoothly, there will be no problem starting shooting in the summer. This kind of film with few scene changes can be shot very quickly. In addition, the second female lead does not have many roles, so it is enough for Dou Yun to take a month out of the summer vacation. It can also allow her to get her acting experience in advance and accumulate acting experience.

Zhou Hao wanted to help Dou Yun gain some experience. Although he couldn't give her the leading female role, it would be good to let her play the second female role for the first time. If her performance was good, he would give her opportunities in other movies in the future.

Soon Zhou Hao met Teng Huatao. Ning Hao accompanied him throughout the meeting. With him around, although Zhou Hao and Teng Huatao met for the first time, they had a very good chat and felt that they could get along very well with each other.

Teng Huatao was concerned about the script, so Zhou Hao gave him the script of "You Are the Apple of My Eye" and asked him to take a look at it first. Teng Huatao took the script and read it carefully, while Zhou Hao chatted with Ning Hao about the shooting location.

Ning Hao was very happy and admitted that the trip to Sichuan and Chongqing was very smooth and the location selection for both interior and exterior scenes was very ideal.

Zhou Hao nodded: "As long as you think it's appropriate."

Ning Hao said: "I went to Sichuan and Chongqing this time and found a few local actors."

Zhou Hao immediately thought of Wang Xun and the local actors who spoke with Sichuan and Chongqing accents in the film, and couldn't help asking, "How about it, are there any suitable candidates?"

"Yes!" Ning Hao said excitedly, "I have met a few very suitable people. I have almost finished the negotiations and they are all willing to join. Before filming starts, let them come to Beijing for a meeting to sort out the script and then we can start working."

Ning Hao added: "Lord Liu's schedule is quite full, so he will go directly to Sichuan and Chongqing two days before the start of filming."

Zhou Hao was relieved. Although King Liu might not be more suitable than the original actor in terms of performance, he was famous, and hiring him with more money was just to add hype to the movie and increase its popularity.

Zhou Hao wanted to ask him if there was any actor named Wang Xun among the ones he found locally, but he didn't know how to ask. After hesitating for a while, he pretended to be curious and asked, "How are the actors you found locally?"

Ning Hao said excitedly: "The local drama troupes in Sichuan and Chongqing are really full of hidden talents, with many excellent comedians. This time, we may find a dozen actors from the local drama troupes to play various roles. They also introduced me to an actor from the Sichuan and Chongqing Art Troupe, who was named one of the top ten comedians in Sichuan and Chongqing a few years ago. We met and had dinner together a few days ago. He is also a very outstanding veteran actor."

Zhou Hao didn't know if he was talking about Wang Xun. If so, that would be the best. Zhou Hao admired this actor very much and his characterization was very good. Whether it was "Crazy Stone", "My Captain, My Regiment", "The Militiaman Ge Erdan"... he had outstanding performances and was a talent.

Ning Hao added, "By the way, I have also discussed this with Tang Wei. She has read the script and is very interested in the role of the gangster's girlfriend. She is willing to play the role. Moreover, she is studying directing and wants to be an assistant director with the crew throughout the whole process to gain some experience."

Zhou Hao smiled and said, "She is underemployed as an assistant director. She will definitely develop into an actress in the future. But since she likes it, you can take her with you."

Tang Wei is also an actress that Zhou Hao likes very much. Her career path in her previous life was not smooth. Although "Lust, Caution" made her famous, it also brought her troubles and she has been criticized. Zhou Hao does not want her to take on "Lust, Caution" again. Although this movie is a good one, it is better to let other people play it. If Haobo Image can give her a good opportunity, she will not have to take the risk of taking on "Lust, Caution".

Ning Hao said: "I am almost ready, and we can start shooting in July."

Zhou Hao said, "When you call everyone to Beijing for a meeting, let me know and I'll go over to take a look."

Ning Hao nodded: "Okay!"

After waiting for Teng Huatao for more than half an hour, he finally finished reading the script of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".

Putting down the script, Teng Huatao said: "Mr. Zhou, this script is very good, the splicing is very clever, the story is warm and real, although it is a bit regrettable, but it also fits the tone of youthful love, it makes people feel bright, very good, I am willing to shoot it!"

Zhou Hao nodded and smiled. Teng Huatao was very obsessed with movies because he had very few opportunities to make movies, and he liked movies with youth romance themes very much. This movie "You Are the Apple of My Eye" could easily impress him. The current youth romance movies are either fake or pretentious, and there is really no such script that is more down-to-earth, warm and real.

Zhou Hao said, "Since you are willing to take it, I will give you the script without any worries. How much do you think the budget for this drama will be?"

Teng Huatao said: "Not counting the actors' salaries, three million is enough."

Teng Huatao's words were a bit uncertain. Three million is a huge sum of money nowadays. Excluding the actors' salaries, using three million as a production fee to shoot a movie with simple scenes is considered a high standard. If it is given to those directors who specialize in shooting digital movies, even one million will not be enough. However, Teng Huatao also wants to keep improving, so he offered the price of three million. If Zhou Hao agrees to this production standard, then he will have more room to display his talents.

Zhou Hao didn't hesitate: "Ok, three million is no problem!"